FCH 2 JU Annual Activity Report 2019
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Ref. Ares(2020)2916175 - 05/06/2020 ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT 2019 EUROPE DIRECT is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union Freephone number (*): 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed www.fch.europa.eu Email: [email protected] Publication: February 2020, in Belgium Legal notice All images © FCH 2 JU 2020. More information on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://europa.eu) © European Union, 2020 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. Printed in Belgium Publicly available ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT 2019 In accordance with Article 17 of the Statutes of the FCH 2 JU annexed to Council Regulation (EU) No. 559/2014 and with Article 20 of the Financial Rules of the FCH 2 JU. The annual activity report will be made publicly available following its approval by the Governing Board. 1 FCH JOINT UNDERTAKING | ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS FACTSHEET ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 FOREWORD ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................................ 7 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................. 11 1. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ANNUAL WORK PLAN 2019 ........................................................................... 13 1.1 Key objectives 2019 and associated risks..................................................................................13 1.2 Research and innovation activities ............................................................................................20 1.3 Calls for proposals and grant information .................................................................................44 1.4 Call for tenders ........................................................................................................................48 1.5 Dissemination and information of project results .....................................................................49 1.6 Operational budget execution ...................................................................................................53 1.7 In-kind contributions ...............................................................................................................54 2. SUPPORT TO OPERATIONS .................................................................................................................... 61 2.1 Communication activities .........................................................................................................61 2.2 Legal and financial framework .................................................................................................78 2.3 Budgetary and financial management ......................................................................................79 2.4 Procurement and contracts ......................................................................................................85 2.5 IT and logistics ........................................................................................................................86 2.6 Human resources .....................................................................................................................88 3. GOVERNANCE....................................................................................................................................... 91 3.1 Governing Board ......................................................................................................................91 3.2 Executive Director ...................................................................................................................92 3.3 States Representatives Group ...................................................................................................92 3.4 Scientific Committee ................................................................................................................93 3.5 Stakeholders Forum .................................................................................................................93 2 4. INTERNAL CONTROL FRAMEWORK ........................................................................................................ 95 4.1 Financial procedures ...............................................................................................................95 4.2. Ex-ante controls on operational expenditure ............................................................................95 4.3 Ex-post control of operational expenditure and error rates identified .......................................96 4.4 Audit of the European Court of Auditors .................................................................................107 4.5 Internal audit ........................................................................................................................107 4.6 Risk management and conflict of interest ...............................................................................107 4.7 Compliance and effectiveness of internal control ...................................................................108 5. MANAGEMENT ASSURANCE .................................................................................................................111 5.1 Assessment of the Annual Activity Report by the GB ................................................................111 5.2 Elements supporting assurance .............................................................................................111 5.3 Reservations .........................................................................................................................111 5.4 Overall conclusions ...............................................................................................................113 6. DECLARATION OF ASSURANCE .............................................................................................................115 ANNEX 1 Organisation chart .........................................................................................................118 ANNEX 2 Staff establishment plan ...............................................................................................119 ANNEX 3 Publications from projects .............................................................................................120 ANNEX 4 Patents from projects. .........................................................................................................................138 ANNEX 5 Scoreboard of Horizon 2020 common KPIs ......................................................................139 ANNEX 6 Indicators for monitoring cross-cutting issues202 ............................................................................................................ 141 ANNEX 7 Scoreboard of KPIs specific to FCH 2 JU .........................................................................144 ANNEX 8 Draft annual accounts ...................................................................................................145 ANNEX 9 Materiality criteria .........................................................................................................146 ANNEX 10 List of acronyms ..........................................................................................................148 3 FACTSHEET NAME Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking a) To contribute to the implementation of Regulation (EU) No. 1291/2013, and in particular the Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy Challenge and the Smart, Green and Integrated Transport Challenge under part III OBJECTIVES of I of Decision 2013/743/EU (b) To contribute to the objectives of the Joint Technology Initiative on Fuel Cells and Hydrogen, through the development of a strong, sustainable and globally competitive FCH sector in the Union FOUNDING LEGAL ACT Council Regulation (EU) No. 559/2014 of 6 May 2014 – OJ L169/108-129 of 7.6.2014 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Bart Biebuyck Chair: Valérie Bouillon-Delporte Vice-Chair: Patrick Child GOVERNING BOARD Governing Board composition: http://www.fch.europa.eu/page/governing-board OTHER BODIES States Representative Group, Scientific Committee, Stakeholder Forum STAFF 24 temporary agents and 3 contract agents EUR 91.7 million of which EUR 86.1 million allocated to operational activities and EUR 5.6 million to administrative 2019 BUDGET expenses BUDGET 86 % in terms of commitment appropriations IMPLEMENTATION 98 % in terms of payment appropriations GRANTS 109 signed for a total value of EUR 541.0 million STRATEGIC RESEARCH Multi-Annual Work Plan 2014-2021 AGENDA Addendum to the MAWP endorsed by the Governing Board on 15 June 2018 CALL IMPLEMENTATION Number of calls launched in 2019: 1 Number of proposals submitted: 44 Number of eligible proposals: 43 Number of proposals funded: 17 Global project portfolio (since setting up): 155 projects under FP7 (of which 150 closed and 5 open) and 109 signed projects under H2020 (of which 11 closed and 98 open) Number and value of tenders (if any): 3 studies were contracted in 2019 for a total value of EUR 1.5 million PARTICIPATION, INCLUDING SMES